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New Act Is A Step Toward Landlord-Tenant Equality In Georgia, Nancy Terrill

Mercer Law Review

Beginning in the fall of 1975, members of the 1976 session of the General Assembly spent many hours negotiating and finally passing what appears to be a landmark law for Georgia tenants. Although there is no comparison to the extensive changes proposed by the Uniform Residential Landlord Tenant Act, Senate Bill 472 as it passed in 1976 does mark a new beginning toward equalizing the landlord-tenant relationship and eliminates at least some of the obstacles encountered by tenants seeking remedies for substandard housing conditions.

This article first will outline the more significant aspects of landlordtenant law as it has existed …

Neighborhood Housing Services: A Program With Promise, Charles L. Thiemann

Vanderbilt Law Review

Neighborhood Housing Services (NHS) is a concept concerned with the problem of neighborhood preservation and revitalization. It is also a program that has developed out of this concept which many believe has much promise as a means of dealing with these problems. What reasons do we have for believing that NHS is a program with promise? How is the concept of Neighborhood Housing Services germane to the problem of neighborhood preservation and revitalization? What is the nature of the problem of neighborhood preservation and revitalization? These are the questions addressed in this article.

Eliminating Redlining By Judicial Action: Are Erasers Available?, Paul A. Renne

Vanderbilt Law Review

This paper will consider one practice--mortgage disinvestment, commonly referred to as "redlining"--which has worked incontravention to the declared policy of Congress by contributing to the destruction of the urban housing inventory and has been partly responsible for the failure to meet our housing goals. This paper will discuss the concept and effects of redlining, the relevant statutes and administrative regulations, and the use of class action litigation as a means of eliminating the practice. Before turning to this discussion, however, it is important to emphasize that eliminating the practice of redlining will prove no panacea to our urban problems. It …

Exclusionary Zoning - Does A Zoning Ordinance With Racially Discriminatory Effects Violate The Constitution? Metropolitan Housing Development Corporation V. The Village Of Arlington Heights, Thomas W. Cody

Loyola University Chicago Law Journal

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Power(Lessness) And Dispersion: Comments On Chester Mcguire's The Urban Development Act Of 1974, Community Development Funds And Black Economic Problems, Henry Mcgee

Faculty Articles

Professor McGee discusses Chester McGuire's comprehensive, provocative and good-humored assessment of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 (HCDA). McGuire suggests both ominous and benign trends in the shift of political power and allocation of material resources in the United States. In analyzing the McGuire’s assessment of the HCDA, Professor McGee addresses how the act affects minority groups, particularly Black Americans.

Urban Housing Finance And The Redlining Controversy, Daniel F. Reidy

Cleveland State Law Review

This note will focus upon three basic issues raised by the redlining controversy: first, whether or not redlining is in fact occurring; second, the role of government through legislation and regulatory agencies; third, emerging areas of litigation.

New Judicial Approaches To Maintaining Housing Quality In The Cities, Eugenia K. Manning

Fordham Urban Law Journal

Virtually every member of the urban community is a party to a landlord-tenant relationship. As the general tenor of urban life in America changes, so must the laws which govern the urban dweller. For years the doctrine of caveat emptor prevented the tenant from forcing the landlord to make necessary repairs or to retain the leased premises in a habitable condition. The doctrine of constructive eviction afforded him little relief; and housing and sanitation codes, while achieving a measure of success, were generally ineffective. Only when conditions because unbearable did the law protect him. Increasingly, however, the trend has been …